HiFi compatibility on all devices.

Hopefully not for too long, @Feras thank you for your support and honest feedback :thumbsup_tone2:

@Rudi@Rudi  is there any kind of rough ETA on when HiFi streaming on Android will be available for Beta testing?

I dropped Tidal because of the constant focus on/pushing of music I don't listen to & have been testing Deezer & Qobuz for about 6 months now. I prefer Deezer's interface & love Flow but being locked to a computer to get even CD quality audio is just ridiculous (especially considering I listen to music an avg of 4-5 hours a day). Qobuz offers much higher quality tracks than you (up to 24-bit/192k) but it's hit or miss & most people don't even have headphones/Amp/DAC that can use that but they still make it available to stream or download on your phone. I don't want to kick Deezer to the curb but you guys are taking your sweet time with a feature that is essentially already there (the app supports HiFi/lossless through casting) & I'm tired of paying for 2 services just to be able to enjoy my headphones or IEM's when away from the computer. Right now it's either have Jay-Z abuse me on Tidal or deal with the quirks of Qobuz to get the music I want in decent quality (cruddy compressed MP3's & AAC are for the troglodytes). Keep in mind, you guys barely make the cut for 'HiFi' audio & still don't offer anything better than 1990's quality audio (16-bit/44.1k) much less any kind of Hi-Res streaming, on any platform. I'd say some fires need to be lit under the devs hineys

On that note, is there even any talks about offering any true HiFi sample rates (anything 16-bit/64k or higher)? It'd be amazing if you guys got into the actual Hi-res /24-bit market but based on how slow it is for just basic lossless streaming to be available, I'm guessing that's not going to happen. 

Hi there @KylesFrickinMusic 

Thank you for your detailed feedback. Good news is that you can now stream from Android Beta on our HiFi quality. The app update has just been released :wink:

About increasing the quality of the HiFi offer, all I can say is that it isn't on the plans for now - but this is because we're maxed out working on features we want to release by the end of this year. So hopefully we can make a discussion out of it in the near future.

@Rudi Are you sure with the beta testing on android? Doesn’t work for me.

I'm new to Deezer Premium and already feel that the HQ sound quality is very good. I love the HQ SQ when casting to my Nvidia Shield feeding my DAC. I'm looking forward to moving to HIFI tier when it becomes available to see if it makes an significant sonic difference. Heck this is the first service I've used that actually makes streaming to Google Cast in HIFI possible. 

Hey @chulohock ! Implementing the number of devices which can offer HiFi quality on Deezer is definitely in the pipeline, yet we cannot mention a real date at the moment, sorry about that :/ However, I have passed your feedback to our product manager and i hope that HiFi will be available on Nvidia Shield very soon. 

Thanks for your feedback and fingers crossed! :) 

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm assuming HIFI is already available via Nvidia Shield via Chromecast built into unit. Please confirm that this is the case. 

my Android phone with Deezer Beta version did show the “hifi” indication with played songs on Friday nov 1 .     But it came back to HQ the next day and since. The app still has the “hifi streaming to devices” selected.  Is this  just an effect that HiFi is Beta?

I guess they might switch HiFi streaming on and off at the moment or rather before the weekend in the Android beta app which I don’t have anyhow. The HiFi streaming in the desktop app is constant though, version 4.17.20 shows an audio quality indicator on the album cover in the play queue which confirms this, and only very few tracks stream in HQ, i.e MP3 at 320kbps.